The evil reigns. Having decimated peaceful hosting providers, Supreme Attacker WP Broke now deploys his merciless legions to seize control of the galaxy. Only CTO Jan Loeffler's gang of RESISTANCE fighters stand against the rising tyranny, certain that Security Master Plesk Obsidian will arise and restore a spark of hope. But the Resistance has been exposed. As the First Attacks speed towards the hosting base, the brave Plesk Obsidian heroes defend the attacks with their massive fortress and keep all habitats safe.... Get your exclusive seat to receive some exciting insights into latest market trends. The Plesk team crawled the web and presents relevant numbers and facts for you to gain competitive advantage. Come and see that simplifying the lives of web professionals is easier than you think! In his talk Jan will not only share some of the results of recent studies and introduce his vision of the best-in-class WordPress hosting. He’ll also present the latest and greatest Plesk Obsidian - your Innovation Platform to intelligently manage servers, apps, websites and hosting businesses of any size.

1. The Rise of
Plesk Obsidian
Jan Loeffler, CTO Plesk

3. In the beginning
there was light.

4. In the beginning
there was light.

5. Tim Berners-Lee and first website

6. Big Bang of the web

9. THE WEB
IN NUMBERS
Scanning the universe of websites...
2.800.000.000 IPv4 addresses

10. THE WEB
IN NUMBERS
Scanning the universe of websites...
56.000.000 HTTP hosts

11. THE WEB
IN NUMBERS
Scanning the universe of websites...
8.900.000 web-facing servers

12. THE WEB
IN NUMBERS
Scanning the universe of websites...
1.700.000.000 sites

13. THE WEB
IN NUMBERS
Scanning the universe of websites...
239.000.000 domains

15. Our Sun

16. Regulus

17. Spica

18. Arctus

19. Polaris

20. Alphard

21. Rigel

24. DENEB

28. 34,6%of websites use WordPress

29. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all/y
% of websites using WordPress

30. WE SCANNED THE WEB
Own scans of 88M+ domains with Google Ranking: every 2nd WordPress site worldwide is hosted by one of those Top 10 Hosting Groups
all others

31. Previous hoster New hoster
Pressable Automattic
GoDaddy SiteGround
GoDaddy Google
Websitewelcome.com UnifiedLayer
GoDaddy DigitalOcean
GoDaddy UnifiedLayer
Internap HostDime
GoDaddy AWS
UnifiedLayer SiteGround
GoDaddy United Internet
GoDaddy Liquid Web
UnifiedLayer GoDaddy
United Internet OVH
UnifiedLayer Websitewelcome.com
Websitewelcome.com SiteGround
GoDaddy Websitewelcome.com
Endurance UnifiedLayer
GoDaddy OVH
AWS Google
Google GoDaddy
Top 5 Winners

33. “The more you engage with customers,
the clearer things become and
the easier it is to determine
what you should be doing.”
John Russel, President of Harley Davidson

34. 34
Web Pros

35. tophoster
WORLD’S NEXT
For
WordPress Edition

36. 36
Who’s in?

37. tophoster
WORLD’S NEXT
WordPress Edition
6 x
5 x
4x
4x
4x
3x
3x
3x
3x
3x

38. tophoster
WORLD’S NEXT
WordPress Edition
7x
6 x
5 x
4x
4x
4x

39. tophoster
WORLD’S NEXT
WordPress Edition

40. tophoster
WORLD’S NEXT
WordPress Edition

41. For
https://ple.sk/cloudspectator

42. In a nutshell - what do those players
do better than others?
✅They offer great support
✅They engage with the WP community
✅They have great infrastructure
✅They optimise for WordPress
✅They focus on WordPress

43. ThemeBeans, CoBlocks, Block Gallery, and
Block Unit Tests

45. WordPress accounted for 90 percent of all hacked CMS sites in 2018
Note: The data in this graph exceeds 100% due to the fact that some websites may have multiple CMS installations. For
example, it’s common to see both WordPress and Joomla! installed on the same server account.
Source: Sucuri
...

46. Source: Sucuri
Hacked websites - Updated vs Outdated Core

47. The perfect
WordPress
product

48. The perfect
WordPress
product?

49. Plesk is your trusted
partner for WP!

51. Broken or not?
How would a
human decide?
After

53. How can you sell
WordPress Toolkit
to all customers
not having Plesk?

54. “Manage WordPress sites
independently of their
hosting infrastructure
and server location”

56. Are your WordPress
sites secured?
Do you know?

57. WPchk is a free WordPress
Security checker to analyse
the security status of all
WordPress instances on a
server from command line.
https://github.com/plesk/wpchk

58. How to use the WPchk?
Download WPchk by executing this command in your terminal:
sh <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plesk/wpchk/master/installer)
Run the WPchk as often as you want with this command:
wpchk --help

59. WPchk - powered by Plesk
https://github.com/plesk/wpchk

61. More than just a Control Panel!
Your Powerful Server, Website and WordPress
Management Platform in the Cloud
NOW AVAILABLE!

63. Plesk Obsidian main pillars
Modern
WebStack
Integrated
Security
Web
Project
Lifecycle
Managed
Services

64. Plesk product update
SSL IT!
SNI for Mail Services
Email Autodiscovery
Advanced monitoring
Plesk Backup optimizations
Repair Kit
Integrated
Security
Redesigned website
overview & UX
Move domains between
subscriptions
Notification Center
Improved File Manager
Web Project
Lifecycle
Modern
Webstack
PHP Composer support
MongoDB support
Restriction of server-side
operations
More secure, more robust,
more useful and faster out
of the box

69. „Great things are done
by a series of small things
brought together”
Vincent Van Gogh

71. ✅Keep the core lean and robust
✅Do it your way & Open Source
✅Faster release cycles
✅Better quality and safe updates
✅More features and solutions
✅Save disk space
Why Extensions?

77. Don’t wait!
Upgrade now!

78. Why it is so
important to run
the latest
Plesk version?

79. ✅Highest NPS
✅Fastest growing
✅Lowest support volume
✅Most secure
It’s simply the best!

80. � won’t get WordPress Toolkit
� won’t get Advisor
� won’t get top Extensions
� will not have highest security
standards
But most importantly,
your customers

81. How to sell VPS?
How to manage the
infrastructure?

82. solus.io
State of the art virtual infrastructure
management for service providers and
organizations

85. Not using the latest and greatest Plesk is like...

86. 1 2 3
Plesk
Obsidian
=
Innovation
Plesk
is your
trusted
partner!
WordPress
=
Higher
ARPU

87. @jlsoft2
jan@plesk.com
https://www.slideshare.net/jlsoft
https://www.jan-loeffler.de
Jan Löffler
CTO Plesk
Let’s Talk!

88. 380.000+
SERVERS
11.000.000+
DOMAINS
19.000.000+
MAILBOXES
2.500+
HOSTERS

89. We simplify the lives
of web professionals
MISSION

90. “The Web as I envisaged it,
we have not seen it yet. The
future is still so much
bigger than the past”
Tim Berners-Lee

91. Big Bang of the web

92. The Rise of
Plesk Obsidian
Jan Loeffler, CTO Plesk

93. Proudly supported by
The Rise of Plesk Obsidian